VA Healthcare System and Medical Center is named after Ralph Johnson.  https://www.va.gov/charleston-health-care/locations/ralph-h-johnson-department-of-veterans-affairs-medical-center/

Ralph Johnson is listed as a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/beaufort.asp.

CMOH: https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/ralph-h-johnson


Private First Class Ralph H. Johnson (Vietnam). Ralph Johnson was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 11, 1949. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in March 1967, and thereafter, the regular USMC, to fight in the Vietnam War. On March 5, 1968, PFC Johnson and his patrol, overlooking the Quan Duc Valley, were attacked by enemy forces. Johnson threw himself on a grenade and warned his comrades; actions that prevented the enemy from advancing and saved the life of a fellow marine. PFC Johnson received the Medal of Honor posthumously. The Charleston VA Medical Center was renamed for him in September 1991, and the navy named a destroyer (U.S.S. Ralph Johnson DDG 114) after him in 2015. Johnson's remains were interred in Beaufort National Cemetery in March 1970.

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